Music......

my friend Genevieve helped my find my song, she had this song on her ipod and i thought it was jus perfect for my collection.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSPcC5N5hZs

Styling for my collection

i know what shoes i wanted to use in my collection. i think the shoes are perfect for my collection there made to look like sporting trainers, but with heels!! i love them!! ( there like them but in grey and white, plus they have a high heel)

re-thinking finals again....

I stopped and thought about what i was making because i can't keep re-do, times running out. so i thought i'll just scrap the two tops and but baggy white ones and style it up myself, by adding a waitband to them. I have keep the skirts the same, expect the second skirt (which is grey) only has a cut out piece in the back.
I decided to make printed grey gogging bottoms ( which is a white print), another gogging bottoms but white. Also i decided to make two hoodeds, one white and red and the other grey and white.

final line up crit.......

we have a week left to the show and we did a line up off what we got so far.
when i saw the printed skirt i loved it, but when it came to the white and black tops with the pipping i hated it.
i reckon the reason why i didn't like it was because of the fact that when i am stitching the piping to the jerset it stetches, so it loses the squared pattern i wanted to create. To me it just looked wore out before being wore.
So Emily said don't be afraid to get rid of thing if u don't like it. So i scrapped it!!

Another thing was that when i saw the black top on the white printed skirt i think it jus over powered it which i didn't want to happen. It was the same with the black with the grey i reckon its would of dulled out my collect. So the black is out!!

coming up with designs.......

i think im going out my mind with trying to design!
the one thing i have finalise is my fabrics. i have decided to use black, white and grey jersey and red breathable PU cordura for the pipping.
time is running out and i need to start finalising things. So i sketch out my final designs, and im going to start making the next day.

starting toiling.........

i started toiling the cropped top with calico.
When i was making it i forgot a parcific way of sewing the linning to top with out showing any seems. So that is something i need to take in counter when making the proper one.
when i tried it on a manniquinn it fitted nice, but as i put it on a person it was cropped to high and alittle tight around the arms.
so i went back to my pattern and adjusted it 4cm more.

Re-thinking designs.......

Okay so i went back into college asking for everyones opinion,on my colours and designs to finalise.
alot of people said that i should maybe re-think making jump-suits out of lycra with a print on it, because the print will stretch and it may not come out looking right. Also i was told if i wanted to u use lycra on the top which is on one sleeve. i need to beware of the one side falling down.
So now im still on the board on what i want to make as my final. Althought some pieces i definetly want to keep, for example the ball shaped skirt, the gogging bottoms and the tight fitted top with pipping in it.


The one thing that i know i was having was my switch board pattern as a final print. i know i wanted it on the white in the red.
the reason i choose this as my final print was because it was the strongest sample thoughtout my whole sketchbook.
In the textiles room i did do some sames of the print with different colours. The red print came out the strongest, it definetly repersented the tron movies.

HELP HELP HELP!!

i am sooo stuck on my colours 2 use in my collection. the final 4 are final, except 1 which i may change to a mens wear. some one please post an opinion i need feed back on what works!!!

FMP

Feed Back

On Wednesday i  did get good feed back.
Lorna- she said she can't help me at this point for fabrics, without any design idea to give or show her. Also sge thinks i should stick with looking at different addictions, but i think i would lose interest in that and i do prefer to look at the video games.
Jernayde- she thinks i should use the pixelated shapes as the main focus of my designs.
Aimee- she said because my project has a big focus on print, which will be inspired by games. To get the shape of the garments i should look at what the characters wear, E.G  in the streets of rage game 1 of the fighters have a sleevless waist coat, but do the pattern cutting as if its pixelated.

After i did have a one to one with Emily, and we started with my predicted grades and then went on to brainstorm what i'm looking at and where i'm going.
so on the brainstorm there is ideas such as:
- Johnny Hardstaff- History of gaming
- How youth society has changed since video games
-How it affects the brain
-Designer Jean Charles De Castelbajar
films to do with video games
-Lawnmower man
- Elephant
-Wall-E
-Avater
- Tron
- Gamer
Then we thought about the Wii and how its affective in society now. which has changed the way of sports.
Then we considered me doing a sports wear collection for the Wii. So its kind of looking at the affects of video games in the future and well we be do such things as making the Wii sports an actual national Olypic sports, ect..

To be honest i love the idea of making my collection a Wii sports garment. which does help me to start making sports wear clothing, since i will be doing contour in Uni.
i justcan't wait to make it, but i'ts jus making sure all my research is there 1st.

Cassetten Playa a/w 10

http://www.londonfashionweek.com/lfw_tv_video.aspx?id=2858

brasso and brooke s/s 10

looking into the game.....

Well to get some primary research i was playing and pausing the game gear console to get some interesting geometric shapes to use as a print idea. And yes i did have fun playing it! lool

switch board idea....

 Because i didn't want to destory my  game console, i found an old portable t.v in my dad's house and just  took it apart (he doesn't know!!)
after Tracey's lesson, we had a discussion of what sample manipulation ideas i can do with the switch board. I did start with the idea of doing embroidery with the wires.
Tracey and Vicky said they like both sides of the switch board and can see a lot of shape that i could work with.
I did a rubbing of the one side of the switch board, which straight away i knew i had to develop it even more. so i went onto doing a Lino print of the lines on the switch board. i loved the print, and the colours collide together.
I went back to Vicky and she suggested i can develop it even more by doing an emboridery over the print. Which may work. but because the lesson ended i'm going to try and ask tracey if i can come into one of her lessons and continue sampling.

i did actually realise that i had some old games and game consoles, which i knew would help my get some ideas. 

Also me and a couple of friends went to down to the market where they sale old game consoles, gameboys and control pads. And for the whole time i had the ides of using control pads and knitting with it to make something like a skirt.

FMP Diary :-)

Okay.... well my FMP its based around 'Addictions', so i started of with brainstorming around the word 'addiction' ( also with the added help of my group peers).
I began to see words such as Plastic surgery, drugs, games, abuse and fast food ect....i also had artist to look at such as Orlan and David LaChapelle.

i started my research at the Central Libuary, looking at smoking adverts and looking at documentaries on extreme beauty.


After a couple of days researching, i felt myself lossing interestin the whole aspect of looking at addictions in a whole. So after a couple of dicussions with tutors and a helpful group crit, i decide to just look at 1 addiction. which i began to realise i can see myself going far with the idea of video games. Already i can see what ideas and manipulation i could do.